Night Gallery
Premiere Date
- 1969-1973
- 3 seasons
- Decades
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
Premiere Date
Season 3 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
The Return of the Sorcerer
Sun, Sep 24, 1972 26 mins
Translator Noel Evans comes to the home of John Carnby to translate the Necronomicon from Arabic to Latin, but is soon immersed in demonic rituals as Carnby's assistant Fern attempts to resurrect Carnby's dead brother and take his power for her own.
Episode 2
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
Sun, Oct 1, 1972 26 mins
Photographer David Faulkner makes the acquaintance of a beautiful but anonymous woman. A beer manufacturer is entranced by the Girl and wants to put her on all of his billboard, and demands a meeting with her. David and every man the Girl meets becomes similarly infatuated with her.
Episode 3
Fright Night
Sun, Oct 15, 1972 26 mins
Tom and Leona move into the house left to Tom by his dead relative Zachariah. The housekeeper (who won't stay after dark) instructs them to never open or move a trunk in the attic, although the trunk seems to be able to move quite well on its own.
Episode 4
Rare Objects
Sun, Oct 22, 1972 26 mins
Mobster August Kolodney is a marked man, targeted for assassination by his many rivals. Kolodney seeks an escape from the pressures of his life, and a doctor named Glendon offers the gangster a way out...at the cost of everything Kolodney owns.
Episode 5
Spectre in Tap-Shoes
Sun, Oct 29, 1972 26 mins
After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.
Episode 5
Once Upon a Chilling
Sat, Oct 28, 1972 26 mins
When Laura begins to see visions of her recently dead boss -- who was studying cryogenics and arranged to have his own body frozen -- she seeks advice from her ex-boss. Since the ex-boss's office is next to Dr. Rhodes', he naturally involves Rhodes in the problem. Visiting the house owned by the Foundation financing the research (and where the room with the dead man's frozen body is located), Rhodes shares Laura's visions and they both suspect the doctor's bad heart was not the real cause of his death.
Episode 6
The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes
Sun, Nov 5, 1972 26 mins
After becoming world champion boxer, Jim Figg steps into his locker room shower, but steps out into a luxurious room in a strange house, where he is expected to participate in a fight with an opponent who has an extraordinary winning streak in the ring going.
Episode 7
You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan/Smile, Please
Sun, Nov 12, 1972 26 mins
Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet. / A photographer meets a vampire.
Episode 8
The Other Way Out
Sun, Nov 19, 1972 26 mins
Executive Bradley Meredith is responsible for the unsolved murder of a go-go dancer, so the victim's vindictive grandfather Old Man Doubleday invites him to the family's dilapidated old farmhouse, which comes complete with a pack of wild dogs.
Episode 9
Finnegan's Flight
Sun, Dec 3, 1972 26 mins
Charlie Finnegan is serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary and longs to escape. Fellow prisoner Pete Tuttle tries to help him, with the aid of his talent for hypnosis.
Episode 10
She'll Be Company for You
Sun, Dec 24, 1972 26 mins
After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.
Episode 11
Something in the Woodwork
Sun, Jan 14, 1973 26 mins
Molly is an alcoholic and still has delusions that her ex-husband Charlie can be won over. She has just bought a home that has been unoccupied for 30 years, thanks to the story about a ghost in the attic. When she invites him to her new house under a misleading need to talk, Charlie makes it clear he is through with her and has found someone new. Taking advantage of his weak heart, Molly gets Charlie up into the attic, with surprising results.
Episode 12
Death on a Barge
Sun, Mar 4, 1973 26 mins
A lonely woman named Hyacinth lives on a barge anchored in a canal, is marooned by her fear of crossing running water, and sleeps during the day - in a coffin. She and a local boy fall in love.
Episode 13
Whisper
Sun, May 13, 1973 26 mins
Irene is a natural medium often unwillingly possessed by lost souls, which starts to worry her young husband Charlie Evans, since she's having more and more trouble controlling them, especially when it comes to one grieving mother.
Episode 14
The Doll of Death
Sun, May 20, 1973 26 mins
In the British West Indies, plantation owner Alex Brandon is humiliated on his wedding day when his bride Sheila Trent is enticed into the arms of her former suitor Raphael. So he plots revenge with the help of an Obeah High Priest's knowledge of voodoo.
Episode 15
Hatred Unto Death/How to Cure the Common Vampire
Sun, May 27, 1973 26 mins
On the Kenyan veldt, a wild gorilla named N'Gi disrupts the marital harmony between anthropologists Ruth and Grant Wilson./In this brief vignette, vampire hunters encounter the coffin of the undead.
Episode 16
Die Now, Pay Later
Sun, Jun 3, 1973 26 mins
Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.
Episode 17
Room for One Less
Sun, Jun 10, 1973 26 mins
In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another idea.
